Solved: Wendax 1092 - Kämper truck with Gottlob Auwärter cab

[Wendax]

Not quite finished when the picture was taken, but good enough for a puzzle.

For one point, please respond and identify this truck.

[Wendax]

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[Bill Murray]

It looks to me to be a DAF from around 1950-1953 with several of the grille bars not installed yet.

Bill

[Wendax]

No DAF connection

[Wendax]

up again

[targhediferro]

Pre-War OAF rebodied after the war?

[Wendax]

Not Austrian this time

[pguillem]

A German truck, isn.t' it ? I can't remember its name.

[Wendax]

Yes, German

[pguillem]

is it related to buses ?

[targhediferro]

Kaelble base with a coachbuilded body?

[Wendax]

is it related to buses ?

There is a certain connection, but in an indirect way.

[Wendax]

Kaelble base with a coachbuilded body?

Coachbuilt, but not a Kaelble

[pguillem]

Kämper from 1953 bodied by Gottlob Auwärter

[Wendax]

Yes, exactly. Before I found this picture, I hadn't read of a Kämper truck. I just knew them as engine suppliers, as they did for Auwärter's Neoplan buses in the beginning.

[pguillem]

Yes, exactly. Before I found this picture, I hadn't read of a Kämper truck. I just knew them as engine suppliers, as they did for Auwärter's Neoplan buses in the beginning.

Kämper also supplied an engine for the Orion Lkw 6-Tonnen prototype.